"squirrel injured by a hawk so the mussel man informs him to get help from Doctor Dolittle. Tommy goes to Mathew Mugg to find out where the doctor lives who tells him that the Doctor can speak the language of animals so they go to his house but find out he's gone away on a voyage and is guarded by his dog Jip. Later the Doctor comes home to meet Tommy and takes care of his squirrel then explains when Tommy sees a strange fish creature in his house that it's a Wiff-Waff and is trying to learn shellfish language"
"WWF Raw (2002 video game) WWF Raw (known as WWE Raw in other regions and on later re-releases) is a video game released on the Microsoft Xbox and Microsoft Windows by THQ in 2002. It is based on the television series of the same name. It was the first WWE game released on the Xbox and also the last WWE game released on PC until the release of WWE 2K15 thirteen years later in 2015. A sequel was released in 2003. It is also the last game released under the WWF name, as the World Wrestling Federation changed its name"
"Woof Meow Woof Meow is a role-playing game published by Game Systems, Inc. in 1988. ""Woof Meow"" is a fantasy system in which the PCs are real-world cats and dogs. Players play cats and dogs in a human-controlled society, with genuine cat and dog abilities, and also a magic system. The rules include character creation, skills, magic, fighting, running the game, adventure ideas, and a sample scenario. ""Woof Meow"" was designed by Ulrico Font and John Williford, with a cover by Guy Gondron, and published by Game Systems, Inc. in 1988 as a 96-page book. Lawrence Schick called the game"
"French game ""triomphe"" (Spanish "" triunfo"") used four suits one of which was randomly selected as trumps. It was this game that became extremely popular in Western Europe in the 16th century and is ancestral to many modern card games. The English word is first documented in 1529 as the name of a card game which would develop into Ruff and Honours and ultimately Whist. In German, the term is attested as ""Triumph"" in 1541; the modern German spelling ""Trumpf"" is recorded from 1590. In French, ""triomphe"" remained the name of the game, while the trump suit was called ""atout"","
"Whist Whist is a classic English trick-taking card game which was widely played in the 18th and 19th centuries. Although the rules are simple, there is scope for scientific play. Whist is a descendant of the 16th-century game of ""trump"" or ""ruff"". Whist replaced the popular variant of ""trump"" known as ruff and honours. The game takes its name from the 17th Century ""whist"" (or ""wist"") meaning ""quiet"", ""silent"", ""attentive"", which is the root of the modern ""wistful"". According to Daines Barrington, whist was first played on scientific principles by a party of gentlemen who frequented the Crown Coffee House"
"Tuff E Nuff Tuff E Nuff, known in Japan as , is a 1993 fighting game developed and released by Jaleco for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The game can be played with one to two players. The game starts off with only four characters, but a Boss Code can unlock the other seven characters. The game has three modes: Story Mode, 1-Player to CPU Mode (fighting against each boss individually, except the last one), and Multiplayer Mode. The fighting system is based on buttons: two for kicks and two for punches (light and fierce, respectively). All characters have at"
"Wiffle ball Wiffle ball is a variation of the sport of baseball designed for indoor or outdoor play in confined areas. The game is played using a perforated, light-weight, resilient plastic ball and a long, typically yellow, plastic bat. Miniature versions of baseball have been played for decades, including stickball, improvised by children, using everything from rolled up socks to tennis balls. The ball most commonly used in the game was invented by David N. Mullany at his home in Fairfield, Connecticut in 1953 when he designed a ball that curved easily for his 12-year-old son. It was named when"
"like a good time you need some kind of social life."" WWF Raw (1994 video game) WWF RAW is a video game based on the television show of the same name produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), released for the SNES, 32X, Mega Drive/Genesis, and Game Boy in late 1994 and early 1995 by Acclaim Entertainment. It is the sequel to the ""WWF Royal Rumble"" game that was released in 1993, and is the final part of LJN's 16-bit WWF trilogy. Players can play either One-on-One, Tag Team, Bedlam, Survivor Series, Royal Rumble, or a Raw Endurance Match. Unlike"
"game called 'War', of which Elvis was the proud inventor. There were two teams, and the object of the game was to knock over as many members of the opposing team as possible by any means."" Another game was called the 'Whip' game. ""Elvis's idea of an exciting game was that it should be as dangerous as possible"", such as the game that involved fireworks. ""Some of the Memphis Mafia would buy up to $15,000 worth of fireworks in today's money, including skyrockets, baby giants, firecrackers, and chasers, which moved rapidly and unpredictably until they exploded. Since the emphasis was"
"possibly ""jump ship"". The Monday Night Wars had now officially begun. Early on, Bischoff vigorously promoted his new show by giving away WWF ""Raw"" results on ""Nitro"", as ""Raw"", unlike ""Nitro"", was then mostly taped in advance. Bischoff took another famous jab at the WWF on December 18, 1995, when he brought reigning WWF Women's Champion Debrah Miceli (who had previously competed in WCW as ""Madusa"") back to the promotion as her WWF character Alundra Blayze and, live on ""Nitro"", had her publicly denounce the Blayze character and throw the WWF Women's title belt in a trash can, reclaiming her"
"Ruff and honours Ruff and honours was an English trick-taking card game that was popular in the 16th and 17th centuries; it was superseded in the 18th century by Whist. Ruff and honours is covered in Charles Cotton's ""The Compleat Gamester"" 1674 where it is described as being commonly known in all parts of England. At the time Randle Cotgrave thought the name was just a synonym for Trump. The game was also known as Slamm, a less popular form was called Whist, and it was closely related to Ruffe and Trump described by Francis Willughby. Willughby speculated that there"
"system ""Unusual"", noting of the designers that ""They're ""serious"" about this, honest."" He also pointed out that the GM is called the ""Kennel Master"", and most of the magic spells have humorous names like ""Dog Gone"". Woof Meow Woof Meow is a role-playing game published by Game Systems, Inc. in 1988. ""Woof Meow"" is a fantasy system in which the PCs are real-world cats and dogs. Players play cats and dogs in a human-controlled society, with genuine cat and dog abilities, and also a magic system. The rules include character creation, skills, magic, fighting, running the game, adventure ideas, and"
"Wahoos Wahoos, often shortened to 'Hoos, is an unofficial nickname for sports teams of the University of Virginia (officially the Cavaliers), and more generally, a nickname for University students and alumni. While there is no evidence that the nickname stems from the wahoo fish, it is often claimed by students that a ""wahoo is a type of bass fish that is capable [of] drinking twice its weight."" The nickname is a back-formation from the school's yell, ""wa-hoo-wa."" Official University of Virginia sports documents explain that Washington and Lee baseball fans first called University of Virginia players ""a bunch of rowdy"
"WWF Raw (1994 video game) WWF RAW is a video game based on the television show of the same name produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), released for the SNES, 32X, Mega Drive/Genesis, and Game Boy in late 1994 and early 1995 by Acclaim Entertainment. It is the sequel to the ""WWF Royal Rumble"" game that was released in 1993, and is the final part of LJN's 16-bit WWF trilogy. Players can play either One-on-One, Tag Team, Bedlam, Survivor Series, Royal Rumble, or a Raw Endurance Match. Unlike its predecessor, ""WWF RAW"" is multitap compatible. ""WWF RAW"" introduces differences"
"WWF WrestleMania (1989 video game) WWF WrestleMania (named after the annual pay-per-view event) is an Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) video game created by Rare and published by Acclaim Entertainment in 1989. It was the first WWF licensed NES game and the second WWF game overall, the first being MicroLeague Wrestling. ""WrestleMania"" also marked the beginning of a long relationship between Acclaim and the WWF which lasted ten years. Released just months prior to WrestleMania V, it was intended to help build up to that event. The game's title screen features the tagline for WrestleMania III: ""Bigger. Better. Badder."" Rare later"
"WWF Betrayal WWF Betrayal is a beat 'em up on the Game Boy Color based on the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It was the third and last WWF game released to the Game Boy Color and one of a few games based on the promotion that was of a different genre than the regular professional wrestling games usually produced. The game's plot was roughly based on a storyline in 1999 where Stephanie McMahon gets kidnapped. Her father Vince McMahon promises to grant the player a shot at the WWF Championship if they manage to save her. The player must then"
"With Authority! With Authority! was an online wrestling game created by Genetic Anomalies in conjunction with World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as it was known at the time, and THQ. It was the first WWF game released solely on home computers since 1992's ""WWF European Rampage Tour"". The game was released under its original title WWF With Authority! in 2001 on July 23. Later, in the summer of 2002, as a result of a lawsuit between the World Wrestling Federation (which was becoming the WWE) and the World Wildlife Fund, the game's official title became WWE With Authority!. At its core,"
"Mafia (party game) Mafia, also known as Werewolf, is a party game created by Dmitry Davidoff in 1986 modelling a conflict between two groups: an informed minority (the mafia), and an uninformed majority (the innocents). At the start of the game, each player is secretly assigned a role affiliated with one of these teams. The game has two alternating phases: one, during which the mafia may covertly ""murder"" an innocent, and two, in which surviving players debate the identities of the mafia and vote to eliminate a suspect. The game continues until all of the mafia have been eliminated or"
"WWF in Your House WWF In Your House is a video game for the PlayStation, Sega Saturn, and DOS. Developed by Sculptured Software, it is a follow-up to """" and was published by Acclaim Entertainment, who had previously released ""WrestleMania"" for home consoles. Just like ""WrestleMania"", ""In Your House"" is not a wrestling game in the normal sense, as it is heavily influenced by ""Mortal Kombat"". It features digitized sprites of the wrestlers, and many over the top, unrealistic, and magical moves and taunts by the wrestlers. The game also features finishing moves which are performed before the final pin."
"WWF WrestleMania (1991 video game) WWF WrestleMania (named after the World Wrestling Federation's (WWF) annual pay-per-view event) is a game developed by Twilight and published by Ocean Software in 1991 for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and DOS. It was the first WWF licensed game available for these computers which were still dominant in Europe. It was followed on most of these computers by 1992's ""WWF European Rampage Tour"". In February 1993, the Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions were released as part of the ""Super Fighter"" compilation with ""Pit-Fighter"" and ""Final Fight"". Visually, the game"
"WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game WWF WrestleMania (released on home consoles as WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game) is a professional wrestling arcade game released by Midway Manufacturing Co. in 1995. It is based on the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) professional wrestling promotion. The game features digitized representations of eight WWF performers who are pitted against each other in fast-paced matches inspired by Midway's ""Mortal Kombat"" and ""NBA Jam"" games. Commentary is provided by Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler, who also appear in the game sitting at the announcers' table to the right of the ring and Howard Finkel welcoming players"
"the most notable titles being ""WWF War Zone"", ""WWF Attitude"", ""WWF WrestleMania 2000"", ""WWF No Mercy"", ""WWF Royal Rumble"", ""WWF SmackDown!"", """", ""WWF SmackDown! Just Bring It"" and WWF Raw. Many years later, WWE programming would nostalgically reflect on this time period; a video game entitled ""WWE '13"", which was released in October 2012, paid tribute to the era with its ""Attitude Era"" mode, which allows the player to re-enact WWF matches and storytelling from SummerSlam in August 1997 to WrestleMania XV in March 1999 (and, in the ""Off-script"" section, from August 26, 1999 the debut episode of SmackDown! where"
"to ""World Wrestling Entertainment"" in May of that year. During development, the game was originally called ""WWF Raw is War""; the game's title was changed after WWF shortened the TV show's title in October 2001 due to September 11 attacks and end of Monday Night Wars. The game offers the players a wrestling experience with various matches like singles match, tag team match, triple threat, fatal 4 way, battle royal and handicap matches. The players can also play various tournaments; King of the Ring and several title tournaments. They can create their own character; their attire, move set, entrance, etc."
"brand should be capitalized, and it should only be used in reference to a product currently manufactured by The Wiffle Ball, Inc."" In science, it is frequently used by marine biologists as a size reference in photos to measure corals and other objects. Wiffle ball Wiffle ball is a variation of the sport of baseball designed for indoor or outdoor play in confined areas. The game is played using a perforated, light-weight, resilient plastic ball and a long, typically yellow, plastic bat. Miniature versions of baseball have been played for decades, including stickball, improvised by children, using everything from rolled"
"league's own abbreviation, which was often pronounced ""Wiffle""). Chicago Fire offensive lineman Steve Wright quipped that he had been offered a million dollar contract: ""A dollar a year for a million years!"" In the 1976 season, Memphis Southmen coach John McVay joined the staff of the New York Giants and brought with him nine players from the Southmen. In what has been described as ""the closest approximation to a meeting between the champions of the WFL and the NFL"" (even though the Southmen never won a WFL title), the Southmen-reinforced Giants upset the defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers 17–0"
"Gorf Gorf is an arcade game released in 1981 by Midway Mfg., whose name was advertised as an acronym for ""Galactic Orbiting Robot Force"". It is a multiple-mission fixed shooter with five distinct modes of play, essentially making it five games in one. It is well known for its use of synthesized speech, a new feature at the time. ""Gorf""'s most notable feature is its robotic synthesised speech, powered by the Votrax speech chip. One of the first games to allow the player to buy additional lives before starting the game, ""Gorf"" allows the player to insert extra coins to"
"WWF Super WrestleMania WWF Super WrestleMania is a multiplatform wrestling video game based on the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), released in 1992 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the Mega Drive/Genesis. Two other 16-bit WWF games, ""WWF Royal Rumble"" and ""WWF Raw"", were released which retained the ""tug-of-war"" style grappling system, where moves are performed by locking up and out-tapping the other player or the computer to execute a move. All wrestlers share the same set of standard professional wrestling moves like scoop slams, suplexes, dropkicks, clotheslines, hip tosses, and elbow drops. The Genesis version also has signature moves"
"Spoil Five Spoil-Five (also Spoilt Five and Five and Ten) is the traditional book version of the Irish national card game called Twenty-Five, which underlies the Canadian game of Forty-Five. Charles Cotton describes it in 1674 as ""Five Fingers"", a nickname applied to the Five of Trumps extracted from the fact that the Irish word ""cúig"" means both 'five' and 'trick'. It is supposed to be of great antiquity, and widely believed to have originated in Ireland. It may be identified with the game of Maw, of which James I of England was very fond. Edmund Hoyle in his ""The"
"a rival promotion to the WWF. Both organizations grew into mainstream prominence and were eventually involved in a television ratings war, dubbed the Monday Night Wars. Near the end of the ratings war, WCW began a financial decline, which culminated in WWF purchasing WCW in March 2001. As a result of the purchase, the WWF acquired, among other assets, WCW's championships. Thus, there were two world titles in the WWF: the original WWF Championship and the WCW Championship, which was eventually renamed the ""World Championship"". In December 2001, the two championships were unified at Vengeance. At the event, Stone Cold"
"by the spectators at Virginia football games after a score. Wahoos Wahoos, often shortened to 'Hoos, is an unofficial nickname for sports teams of the University of Virginia (officially the Cavaliers), and more generally, a nickname for University students and alumni. While there is no evidence that the nickname stems from the wahoo fish, it is often claimed by students that a ""wahoo is a type of bass fish that is capable [of] drinking twice its weight."" The nickname is a back-formation from the school's yell, ""wa-hoo-wa."" Official University of Virginia sports documents explain that Washington and Lee baseball fans"
"the 17th century called Maw. Scottish emigrants to Atlantic Canada may explain the reason for the popularity of the game there. Maw was first seen being played in 1511 and the earliest written rules of 1576, the incomplete ""Groom Porter's lawes at Mawe,"" may have originated from Scotland. James VI was recorded playing ""Maye"" at Kinneil House at Christmas 1588. In the 1920s, French Canadian economic migrants who moved south into Massachusetts and New Hampshire in New England introduced the game, where it continues to be popular, sometimes under the French name quarante-cinq. In this region the game is most"
"WWF Attitude WWF Attitude is a professional wrestling video game based on the World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) released by Acclaim Entertainment in 1999 for the PlayStation and Nintendo 64. A slightly enhanced port of the game was later released for the Dreamcast, as well as a handheld version for the Game Boy Color. The game is named after the WWF's then-current ""Attitude"" marketing campaign, with the tagline ""Get it"" also being used on company programming during that period. The game is the sequel to ""WWF War Zone"" and is the last WWF game to be published by Acclaim. The"
"for what we believed would be the real text in the final release. EA liked the humor so much that they decided to make the entire game a comedy."" The consequence of this humor on the sales was ""no joke"", however. It was around this time that the company name was changed to ""Naughty Dog"", a rebranding move to shed old history. Keef the Thief is a classic sword and sorcery role-playing game. The Amiga and Apple IIGS versions of the game were reviewed in 1990 in ""Dragon"" #157 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in ""The Role of Computers"""